With a blizzard in the forecast, the New York Racing Association canceled today’s live racing at Aqueduct. It’s the second day in a row the storm has knocked out the card at the Big A.
Aqueduct and the Belmont Café will remain open for simulcasting, with today’s card at Gulfstream Park featuring four graded stakes including the Grade 1 Donn Handicap and a showdown in the Gulfstream Park Turf between Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and Point of Entry, one of last year’s top turf horses. Telephone and Internet wagering will be available through NYRA Rewards.
Live racing is expected to resume as scheduled tomorrow.
* Godolphin Stable’s Questing, whose runaway victories in the Coaching Club American Oaks and Alabama Stakes last summer at Saratoga earned her the Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old filly, has been retired.
The daughter of Hard Spun had a chip removed from a hind ankle after she was eased in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic, and she later developed pneumonia over the winter. She will be bred to Bernardini.